The author, Marcus Diggs, despite serving an unfair life sentence under California's infamous Three Strikes Law delivers a thrilling autobiography. Diggs weaves together politics & history with the tale of how the son of a black panther started the notorious 52 Hoover Gangsta Crips with his childhood friends. Diggs vividly recounts his life full of sin, sex, drugs & crime from the Post Watts Rebellion to the dawn of gangbanging & the crack epidemic. Diggs sweeps the reader into a world of beauty, betrayal & brutality. The narrative illuminates the twisted complexities of crime while recounting a man's road to redemption.